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KYOOK-umb-uh/ˈkjuːkʌmbə/

A cucumber is a long green salad vegetable with a watery inside. Countable: a cucumber, two cucumbers. Lettuce is leafy; cucumber is the long fruit we eat as a vegetable. Slice / cut the cucumber. In a salad is a common place for it.

Meaning

A long green vegetable with a watery inside, often eaten in salad.

Examples

• “Slice the cucumber for the salad.”
• “Would you like cucumber in your sandwich?”
• “This cucumber is not fresh.”

Good to know

a cucumber (countable). Contrast: lettuce (leaves). Collocation: slice cucumber.

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